A detective who helped crack the case of the murder of Gareth Bailey by jealous husband Steven Feeley says the killer was "emotionless".

Feeley, 40, of Eudo Road in Skegness, was handed a life sentence today, Tuesday, June 12, for murdering the married dad-of-three Mr Bailey at the victim's Ingoldmells home with a knife grabbed from his kitchen. His wife and young son were asleep upstairs at the time.

The court was told Feeley was in a jealous rage after believing Mr Bailey, 29, was having an affair with his wife.

Temporary DCI Jim Hodgson of Lincolnshire Police revealed that the fast-paced investigation quickly identified Feeley as the main suspect.

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"The ambulance service got a call at 2am on December 6 last year and the police attended. They found Gareth covered in blood on the floor with an obvious knife injury to the chest," he said.

"They took him to Boston Pilgrim Hospital but he died at 3.30am and a murder investigation was launched.

"I became involved in the case in the early hours of that morning and by lunchtime we had identified Steven Feeley as a suspect.

"We knew that his wife Vicky was best friends with Kimberley, Gareth's wife, and that they often socialised together and we established that had happened on the night in question.

"When Feeley came to collect Vicky from the house there was an argument and Feeley armed himself with two knives and in a jealous rage stabbed Gareth to the head and heart. It was the chest wound that was fatal."